It's a Big One

It’s a Big One

Alright I got a lot of things I want to cover in this rant and I may do it all in one sit in or I may do some today and the rest… well… today. Enough of me trying to make an insightful and good intro and time to just get right to it.

Have you ever watched something on TV, or a movie, or tried some product and thought “wow I really like this.” You like whatever this thing and then you turn on and see reviews of it. The best example of this is when you’re watching some TV show or a movie. You get done with it and you really enjoyed it. So some people may go online or look in message boards and see what other people thought of it. All of a sudden people are talking about what was wrong with this and start criticizing it. Then you watch it again and look at it differently because someone went out there and mentioned its flaws. So all of a sudden the show you enjoyed watching and had fun watching it is all of a sudden not as good because you’re starting to overanalyze it. If you enjoy something then you shouldn’t let someone’s opinion change what you thought.

There are a lot of TV shows I watch. I used to watch this show called Boston Public which was based in a Boston Public School (which I think is meant to be English High). People would criticize this show for being “too over the top.” Let’s try to understand something for a second. The show is meant to be over the top because if it really was more realistic then it would be boring and not as entertaining. If you have a school where a teacher is getting stabbed, the principle was arrested on suspicion of murder, a kid was caught with a book saying how he wanted to kill everyone, the whole school is having a race war, oh and a teacher is having an affair with a student. That school would probably be shut down. However what made it realistic is you can say to yourself “this stuff could happen.” Of course all these things are not going to happen in 1 school but bits and pieces of it or one of the occurrences could happen in a school.

Another kind of show that really puts things over the top is “Americas Most Wanted.” That show has helped catch people; however the way they tell the stories they are trying to make it as suspenseful and dramatic as possible. This show is meant to have to purposes and that is to help catch these people and to get the ratings. If you made a show like that and it wasn’t as flashy or over the top then it would not get the kind of rating you would be looking for in a show. You can say the same about “Unsolved Mysteries” also.

The other day I was looking online and noticed a headline about a meteor shower. Now the actual story wasn’t what got me thinking. What got me thinking was that the last time there was some meteor shower people around here went up to a huge park and went out like a bunch of idiots as 4am thinking they were going to see home amazing light show. They forgot about one simple factor: You live in the city. When you live in the city you are not going to see many stars or see much of the sky. All the lights from the city prevent you from seeing all that. So if you live in the city and think that by traveling up on some hill you are going to be able to see something amazing then you are wrong. One other thing is that if you live in the city and you get a telescope. I hope your intentions are to spy on people with it and not to actually look up at the sky because if you are then you are wasting your money.

The other day I was thinking about video games and how people have put so much emphasis on the graphics. Graphics in a game are only meant for eye candy and some people would rather play some crappy games that have amazing graphics then some good game that was mediocre graphics. Graphics are really not that important because the point of video games is to have fun playing them. It seems that the simplest of games are always the most fun and a lot of the older ones. I remember playing games like Mario or Sonic for the Nintendo and Genesis and they were fun games. It seemed that back then people didn’t even think about graphics and it was all about how fun the game was. Don’t forget about Tetris which people still play today and enjoy. If you have fun playing some game and then graphic suck then it should not matter. A lot of people are buying the Nintendo Wii because they want to be able to play those old classic games, not to mention X-Box has a new thing where you can download classic games. So many people seem to be buying these systems because they want to play those old games.

Now while I am on the topic of video games. It seems that a lot of people will play a game and they won’t even really have fun playing it. However they won’t stop because they are obsessed with beating this game. Meanwhile the whole time they are playing this game they are getting pissed off and raising their blood pressure. Then they finally beat the game and act all happy. Ok so this game was worth hours of stress and anger to get that couple minutes of actual enjoyment. However you may not even get the enjoyment cause after the game is over and you’re dying to see the end and it sucks. So not only did you not have fun playing the game but you didn’t even get that feeling of fulfillment when you beat it. When I play games I play them to relax me and not to get me all stressed out and pissed.

Have you ever known someone who will go out and see or buy a movie just because it has some girl in it? I could never really understand this because they would even say the movie sucks but be like “well the only reason I got it was because the girl is hot.” Are these guys going to go and jerk off to this movie like it is some porn? If your only reason for wanting to buy or watch some movie is so you can gawk at some girl, then save yourself some money and go download some porn. I actually had a friend who went and bought “Brokeback Mountain” because it showed these girls get naked. Then another one of my friends would get a movie he never even heard of and the only reason he bought it was because he heard this girl got naked. Again, if that is the only reason you are going to get that movie then get porn.

Alright I told you that this was going to be a big one but I still haven’t even talked about everything that I was planning on talking about but I’m going to wait and probably do that tomorrow. I would say what I am going to write about but then I would be obligated to write about that and I don’t write like that. So have a good night or morning or whatever the hell it is